i came to san francisco in 1969. i fell in love with this city and and this is where i raised my family at. my name is bobbie cochran. i ve been a holly court resident for 32 years. i wouldn t give up this neighborhood for nothing. i moved into this apartment one year ago. my favorite thing is my kitchen. i love these clean walls. before the remodeling came along, the condition of these apartments had gotten pretty bad, you know, with all the mildew, the repairs. i mean you haven t seen the apartment for the program come along. you wouldn t have believed it. so i appreciate everything they did. i was here at one point. i was. because i didn t know what the outcome of holly court was going to be. you know, it really got was it going to get to the point where we have to be displaced because they would have to demolish this place? if they had, we wouldn t have been brought back. we wouldn t have been able to live in burn. by the program coming along, i welcome it. they had t
live, anyone, because again, as someone who grew up in public housing, i remember so many people didn t even want to come to my neighborhood. i remember when people didn t want to come to west point. i remember the challenges that existed in this community. we will change that. this is a first step, and there are so many people to think in making this possible. i want to thank the residents. [applause] because the people who live here were sceptical. they said wait a minute, look at what you have to do to the western edition, we don t want any problems, and the fact that the resident said okay, we will take a chance, and we will work with you, and work with city officials, and we will trust you to do this thing right, and we will hold you accountable, that means something. we made this possible because you trusted our ability to make this thing right work for you. i want to thank each and every one of you. i want to thank the mayor touch office of housing and community de
2, 1 you innovation on or was on over 200 years they went through extensive innovations to the existing green new metal gates were installed our the perimeter 9 project is funded inform there are no 9 community opportunity and our capital improvement plan to the 2008 clean and safe neighborhood it allows the residents and park advocates like san franciscans to make the matching of the few minutes through the philanthropic dungeons and finished and finally able to pull on play on the number one green a celebration on october 7, 1901, a skoovlt for the st. anthony s formed a club and john then the superintendent the golden gate park laid out the bowling green are here sharing meditates a permanent green now and then was opened in 1902 during the course the 1906 san francisco earthquake that citywide much the city the greens were left that with an ellen surface and not readers necessarily 1911 it had the blowing e bowling that was formed in 1912 the parks commission paid lay
if you re going to make change you have to be part of change and becoming law enforcement i wanted to show women could do this job it is hard not easy. finds something our compassion about and follow roll models and the gets the necessary skeletals to get to that goal with education and sprirmz whatever gets you there. if this is what you want to do dream big and actually do what you desire to do and you can go vertebrae far it is a fast job i wouldn t do anything else. i have been living in san francisco since 1957. i live in this area for 42 years. my name is shirley jackson, and i am a retirement teacher for san francisco unified school district, and i work with early childhood education and after school programs. i have light upstairs and down stairs. it s been remodelled and i like it. some of my floors upstairs was there from the time i built the place, so they were very horrible and dark. but we ve got lighting. the room seems lighter. they painted t
i m doug shoemaker, and we re lucky enough to be here with you to celebrate this fantastic day. i m wandering over here, wondering what to say, but i think i have it pretty much intact. in addition to the opening of a building, natalie was somebody that was near and dear to many people. you see a lot of us wearing these pins that say i worked for natalie, and i think half of the people in housing feel that way, whether you worked for the city, worked for a housing director or whether you worked directly for natalie. i know that, you know, by the time i accomplished next to nothing, natalie was already taking credit for whatever it is that i did, and whatever it is that i ever accomplished, she took double credit for. i know i m not alone in the room when i say she deserves twice as much credit as she took, and she took a lot of credit. i m not going to take a lot of time today, but i want to take a moment and thank mayor london breed, who s here with you all. went to bed la